Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
Quotes to Explore
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Great men are never cruel without necessity.
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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
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Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
